The Washington bee., 1887-05-28
WHIPPER BEHIND TIL
BARS.
THE
IHE BLACK RADICAL JUDGE CT
PROBATE PROSECUTED BY sMALLs--
DOG EAT DoG-WHIPPER WILL
NOT BE CONVICTED.


DOG EAT DoG-WHIPPER WILL,
NOT BE CONVICTED.
| Correspondence OF the Charles
to Dispatch. n
Beaufort, May 5th, 1874
thunderbolt has fallen among the
faithful in Beaufort. The grea
w. J. Whipper, Judge of Pro-
bate, the only man who could
claim equal prominence with
Smalls among the colored popu.
lation, is now lying in a prison
cell unable to furnish a small
bail of $1,000 on charge of
''malfeasance in office, and also OF
using the influence of his office for
the turtherance of private ends. %
This is the same Whipper, you
will remember, who, when the
state government was in the
hands of aliens, and the judicial
bench was prostituted to private
ends, was nominated, along with
the notorious Moses, to a seat on
the throne OF justice. That was
the act that led Chamberlin to
exclaim, in righteous anger, that
the "Civilization of the Puritan
and the Hugenot was in danger"
And that was the cry that a.
reused the Northern heart to
make an end of the infamous
gang that had fastened itself upon
the state, by withdrawing its NOR
al support. So that in one sense,
the nomination of Whipper to the
judgeship can be said to have
been the placing Of the cap stone
on the monument of carpet bag
iniquity; the placing of which
caused the whole structure to
fall. And it seems to be poetical
justice that he whose nomination
| for Office caused a party's ruin,
should have his own ruin brought
about by members OF his own
party.
The facts in the case are these:
About the year 1884 one Thomas
Scott was appointed by Whipper
to act as guardian of Solomon,
Leviuia and Polly Fripp. Scott
placed in Whipper's hand as Pro-
bate Judge, $905 the remains of
pension cIaim), to hold for the
benefit Of the children: This
money Whipper placed in
charge of S. NJ. Wallace, Mr..
Wallace being on his bond.
Whlpper afterwards removed the
money from Mr.. Wallace, releas-
ing him foom his bond, without
notifying Scott. Now comes the
gist of the matter. Smalls, our
ex- Congressman, had a piece OF
ground which be was deslrious of
selling. Scott wished to buy the
land for the wards, and went to
Whipper to receive the money to
consummate the bargain. When
Whipper heard of it, he refused to
deliver the money unless Smalls
would allow him to deduct the a.
mount that he (Smalls) was in
debted to him (Whipper), for le-
| gal services in the contested e.
lection case of Smalls VS. Elliot,
amounting to about $13S. This
Smalls refused to do, and Scott
insisted on receiving his money,
protesting that he mad nothing to
do with Small's account. Whip
per, being of very obstinate
disposition, refuses to part with
the money. So no course was
left open to Scott but to try to
get his money by law He &C.
cordingIy went to Messrs Elliot
and Howe and secured their ser,
vices. They immed iately issued
a warrant charging him with NAL
feasance in Office, and with using
his official power to collect pri-
vate debts. And on this charge
he was arrested.
1t is but due to Whipper to
state that the money is believed
to be in good hands, and that it is
only his own stubbornness in re-
fusing to give the money up, un-
less Smalls paid him the amount
OF his debt, that has caused the
whole trouble.
There is one thing sure, and
that is, that Whipper will never
be convicted by a Beaufort jury.
He has too many friends for that;
opd if ba iS NOT aoru;ffoJ bo rr;ll